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The Osceola times., 1887-07-30
The Woman Suffrage Bazaar.
be FrIends Of Woman Suffrage:

To the Friends OF Woman Suffrage
The success of the Massachusetts
Woman Suffrage Bazaar of 1886 war.
rants another for 1887. This year the
New England Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation invites the friends of any and
all the States and Territories to coop
crate with them in bazar for Ma
tional purposes. The western States
especially are calling upon the treas
ury Of the American Woman Suffrage
Association for money to help them.
BY the bazar Of 1856. in three
months time, we put s6, 37S7S into
the State treasury. The bazar will
be held in Music Hall and Bumstead
Hall. Boston. December 1919, 1887.
The basis of division is rs follows:
Each State will receive for its own
State treasury ifty per cent. of the net
receipts from its own donations; the
other fifty per cent. will be put into
the American treasury, 20 DC used, al
their discretion, IN carrying municipal
woman suffrage bills and constitutions
al amendments in any OF the states
and Territories.
Please assure us Of your cooperation
by letter to our headquarters, 8 PARK
street. On the first of September we
shall move into beautiful rooms al
Park street. We invite and expect all
friends of this movement in the coun-
try to make these rooms their head
quarters whenever they are in Boston
Come and see us LUCY STONE
The Osceola times., 1887-07-30
COOPERATIVE COOKING.
A New York Lady Finds Lucrative Elm.
ploymsnt aud Opens . New Field OF
Labor Tor Women.

ploymsDt aud Opens . New Field Of
Labor for Women.
A new industry for women is begin
ming to evolve itself in New York,
which may yet do much toward solving
tbn vcxed servant girl question. Some
three months ago a woman Of good
New York family, educated and eapa-
bic. left widow without money, and
having served no apprenticeship to
any of the industries by which women
earn bread and butter, began to think
of putting her pride in her pocket and
turing her notable housekeeping tall
ents TO account by looking for service
in n family as cook.
Considering the matter further, it
occurred to her that she could do bet
ter Securing with some little effort,
tho project being a novel one, a client
ago of half dozen families in her i'm
mediate neighborbood that were groan-
ing under dyspepsia, induced by light
housekeeping" she began to send out,
three times day, delicately cooked
and daintily served meals. Her vent
ure was SO Immediately successful that
she looked up New England house.
keeper and couple Of stout armed
Swedish girl to help her, and her bust
uess sprang, almost in single night,
to the utmost dimensions that she could
handle.
She has twenty-onc families on her
list at present, think, TO whom she
supplies just that wholesome round of
breakfasts, lunches and dinners that
the average house-mother would offer
to husband and little folks. Fruit in
season, in the morning. oatmeal or
wheaton grits, fish, steak or chops; n
side dish, such rs stewed kidneys,
sausage, liver and bacon, eggs; coffee,
tea or chocolate, bread and butter,
milk and sugar. Soup, fish, q roast,
three vegetables, dessert and coffee
make up the dinner. all of which is
sent out at cost of seven dollars a
week to a single person. five dollars
each for members Of families, though
as what is supplied for two Is sufli-
cient for three, the cost per household
isnot reckoned in multiples Of that sum.
In way the experiment is one in CO.
operative housekeeping; for, praoti-
cally, the cost of everyday living is
divided among number Of families,
purchases for all being made together.
the labor for all systcmized and SIM
plificd. and the waste Of all minimized.
lhe result being that each family saves
nearly tho full amount Of Its cooks
wageA and 4 freed fron ~ vaany
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The Osceola times., 1887-07-30
CONDENSED TElEGRAMS,

TIE State Wheel Of Arkansas met at
Hollywood on the 9th.
1T Is said that the yellow fever has
about exhausted itself at Key West
A DELEGATION Of one hundred Of the
most prominent citizens of Kansas City
have gone to Washington for the purpose
Of inviting the President to visit their
city.
The Louisiana Insurance Company has
suspended business aud asked for the APP
pointment OF a commissioner to settle the
company's affairs.
THE Saranac Iron Company, of Saranac,
N. Y, failed on the 2jth. The liabilities
are estimated at 500, 900 and the assets at
about 1000.
VIRGINIA HUDSON, coiored, aged seven
years, is in Jail at Gainesville, \. c., un-
der the charge Of murder She killed a
child one year old and then threw the body
into well. She struck her victim over the
head with board until 1t was dead.
ELSIE &. MARTIN, a passenger on the
steamship Oregon when that vessel sunk
near Fire Island on the morning of March
IA, 1886, has brought suit for 5000 against
the Cunard company for damages TO her
person and loss of property.
TELrGRAMs from Dallas and San An
tonic, Tex, discredit the report that the
Texas cattle trail is to be abandoned, and
that 10000 head Of cattle on their to Wyom
ing were turned back ut the Arkansas
river.
REV. W. II. GArLIS, q colored pastor,
was shot and killed at Starkville, Mise,
on the path by officers who were attempt
ing to arrest him.
NEAR GuntersviHe, Ala, q negro named
Brown cut of the head Of James Beard,
prominent citizen. Beard was drunk and
drew his pistol to shoot Brown without
cause, when Brown, who was moving in
swooping stroke chopped of Boards head.
A FAnMrR named XII Parker was gored
to death by bull near Charlotte, Mich :,
on the 23d.
TIE prohibitory law of Rhode Island
gives the Chief Of State Police virtually
autocratic powers. He and his deputies
can search, seize, arrest, and imprison as
they may please, suspicion Of the reason
ableness Of which they are the judges 10
sufficient to justify, under the law, forci-
BILE entry into sprivate house.
THK brotherhood OF Telegrsphers have
offered $500, 900 for the Baltimore and
Ohio telegraph plant.
Lee SHELLsxBxRoka wss lyncbed at
Nsbrasks City, Nsb., 90 ths 3lsh for the
murder ef his ehild.
onsa s0au. Wn. MoiIss DUsR, Unitsi
oassss Any rso1rei, lu1s Jo1gs A1vooass
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Sherman's Friends Confident,

CINCINNATI, July A--Warner N. Bate
man, who in 1880 was recognized as Sher-
mans lieutenant before the Reou blican
convention, said: "You can rest assured
that the Republican State convention at
Toledo next week will give sherman q
hearty Endorsement. So many assur-
ances to that effect have come TO me, and
from so many quarters, that feel certain
Of IL In spite OF recent declarations to
the contrary, ! feel confident Of Sher-
mau's nomination next year. In spite Of
B'eine's acknowledged strength, Do not
bsiisvs hs cssa - siectsi, while Ehsr.
mas can - Mwoah - i0psssihls, for
1la>ae y carry 1ndtaaa, altAough the
neupoolsoae snrvte1 ~ ooote laes ~ I"
The Osceola times., 1887-07-30
Damage by Heavy Rains.

SPRISsYIELD, Mass July a. AT Miller's
Falls much damage was done last nigh,
and to-day by the heavy rains. Two pas
senger trains and one freight with fiv,
carloads Of hogs, are stalled on the Fitch
burg road within two miles of the village
by wash outs and land slides. A dozen
wash outs have occurred within twenty.
four hours. Teams returning from Ew-
ing, TO which place passengers were
transferred, narrowly escaped swamping
or the banks sk Millers river
The freight house at Millers Falls has
been undermined, one side OF it already
having settled three feet All the con-
tents Of the building have been removed
TO safe locality.
The Osceola times., 1887-07-30
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
The Work Aceomplished by the suPrems
Court

Court
The following facts will show what the
Arkans as Supreme Court has been doing
during the last seven mouths, and what
remains before 1t " hen IL convenes again
October ]:
The number Of cases on docket ct the
beginning Of the November term, 1885,
~ere; Civil cases, 2s5; criminal 81
During the November term, comm enc.
ing November -, 1885. and ending May 81,
1857, the court disposed Of the following:
CIVIL cases, III; criminal cases, IS, leav-
ing at the beginning Of May term, 1887,
undisposed OF, ll6 cases
New cases docketed TO the May term,
1851, are: Civil. lis; criminal, 10; total
Isl. Total on docket 81 beginning OF May
term. 1887, 253.
Since May % to July IL. 1887, the court
had disposed of appeal cases, 50; original
Jurisdiction, 2 OF these 20 were civil
cases and 81 criminal. or the criminal
cases, Is W ere affirmed. reversed and
dismissed. OF the civil cases, 45 were al.
frmed "a reversed and dismissed. or
the civil cases % were railroad damage
suits, which the railroads appealed. or
these is were afir med, reversed and
dismissed.
There are now on the Nav term docket
l65 cases undisposed Of Could the court
dispose Of these by Novem Der 2S, 1t would
be entirely up with ITS work. But this 1t
can not do, as they have taken a recess
until o ,tober L 1t is probable they will,
during October and Novemb Der, dispose Of
say rs or 50 cases. thus leaving some IS or
90 cases undisposed Of at the beginning Of
the Novem Der term, 1887. These 80 cases
represent what the court is behind,
which, in time. may be estimated ut the
very outside at three months
From this 1t appears that the court is
steadiiy gaining ground and will, unless
the number Of appeals increase rapidly,
catch up within two years or less.
The Osceola times., 1887-07-30
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN,

Mrs JAMES l. FIELDS sas one Of
the choicest collections Of autograph
letters of authors in Americt.
Miss ROSE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND
is to be associated with Mrs. Martha
J. Lamb in conducting the Aagasine
of american History.
THE PRINCESS OF WALES is this year
an exhibitor at the Royal Society Of
Painters in Water Colors. She sends
picture Of Windsor.
Mrs. WINsLow's " Yesterdays with
Actors" las been 50 well received,
that Messrs. Cupples & Hurd have in
preparation second edition..
Mrs. JAMES WILSON. sister Of the
late Horace Greeley, is very i'll with
pneumonia, at New Brun.wick, N. J.
She is seventy-nine years old.
Mrs. MARY FRANK BROWNE, Of Oak
land, edits temperance paper emf
tied the California Bulletin, which now
contains sixteen pages of racy, original
and terscly-written matter. 1t has be-
come an indispensable educator.
Mrs. CLARA B. COLBY, as vice-presi-
dent of the N. W. S. Association for
Nebraska, has addressed a letter to the
| Ninety-ninth General-Assembly Of the
Presbyterian Church. In session at
Omaha, ITO enlighten the clergy in re-
gard to the demand Of that association,
and to urge their support of the work"
Mrs. c. T. COLE. who has rendered
very acceptable service as State super
intendent Of the Social Purity Depart
ment of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union, of Iowa, has issued a
circular presenting the necessity of the
utmost caution in the efforts made to
promote the deeply needed reform"
PRINCESS CHRISTIAN princess Helena
of England) has completed transla-
ton of the memoirs of the Margra-
vine Of Bayreuth. The translation is
accompanied by an introduction which
throws considerable light on the nnu-
ence which the Margarine possessed
on the mind and actions Of her illustri-
Gus brother, Frederick the Great
Mrs FLORENCE KELLEY WIsCHENE-
wErsKY read paper upon "The Need
of Special Training in Philanthropic
Work" at a recent meeting of the Col
legate Alumne of New York. Miss
Grace II. Dodge; DIR. Hall, of Vassar;
Miss Woodward, of Smith College;
Miss Edgerton, of Wellesley; Mrs.
Frances Fisher Wood, and others. par
tcipated in the discussion.
Mrs. LAYAH BARAKAr, . talented
Syrian lady, has been in Chicago late.
ly. interesting large audiences. as she
does everywhere. She never fails to
speak for temperance when opportuni.
ty offers. She has been appointed vice
president of the Worlds w. c. 7. U.
for Syria, and upon her return to her
native land will carry on temperance
work among the women Of her people.
DIR. KATE C. BUSHNELL, of Evans
ton, H.. representing the Department
Of Social Purity of the National Wom-
ans Christian Temperance Union. is
visiting New York and vicinity, and
will accept invitations to lecture on the
subject of Social Purity and the White
Cross. She has labored very effectively
in China as q medical missionary. and
at the West has presented the subject
of Social Purity and the White Gross
in Mothers Meetings." and TO mixed
audiences OF men and women, with
great acceptance.
The Osceola times., 1887-07-30
Two other women, emulous O, N.

Two other women. emulous Of tina
first. talk Of starting similar enter.
p,ises. The scheme is in its infancy,
but whenever a sufficient number of
families within a radius of block or
two as near the great fiat houses, can
be interested in IL, it has promise Of
an opening for an industry for women
and of relief from divers perplexities
for the families they serve.-Eiiza Ps4
nan, Heato,s, in Brooklyn Times.
The Osceola times., 1887-07-30
The Signal ONCE weather-Crop Bulletin.

The Signal Office Weather-Crop Bulletin.
WAsnINaroN, July 25-The Signal
Service weather crop bulletin for the
week ending July %, reports that the
temperature for the week has been nor
NAL or slightly cooler than usual in the
New England States, Upper Lake region,
and the Missouri valley; elsewhere it has
been warmer, the notab excesses rang
ing from 4 deg. daily in the Middle At
lantlc States TO Q deg. or more in the
Ohio valley. These high temperatures
have prevailed over the entire cotton,
corn and tobacco regions.
Since January the temperature for the
agricultural sections has closely accorded
with the average, except over the corn
and wheat districts Of the Ohio Valley
and Missouri, where the mean daily ex-
cess of heat has been from one 70 two de-
grees. During the week the rainfall has
been in excess over New England, the
Middle Atlantic States and the interior
Of the South Atlantic and East Gulf
States, as well as in the greater part OF
Nebraska. The excess of rainfall has
come largely in severe thunder storms,
especially in Pennsylvania and Mary
land.
While Southern Michigan has been IA
Mississippi valleys report for the week
defcicn, rainfall, varying from one-third
TO three-quarters Of the usual amount
Marked seasonal Deficiencies Of rainfall
yet obtain. amounting to ten inches or
more, in Iowa, the Lower Mississippi
valley, Alabama and Georgia. In low
this deficiency has steadily increased
during the past month; but in the other
regions named the deficiency has slowly
diminished.
The reports for the week show weather
favorable for the cotton crop, except In
the Carolinas, where many localitie'
much need the rain to-day predicted
While tho high temperatures tend 70
rapidly mature the growing corn, yet
more rain must be needful from Kansas
and Iowa, eastward 10 Indiana
The great heat and bad distribution Of
rain may possibly affect the crop in NORTH
Carolina, where, however, the ind dications
of this morning look 10 occasional rains.
The Osceola times., 1887-07-30
MISCELLANEOUS.


1T Is reported that the White House at
Washington is badly decayed. doubts
being expressed as to it's safety as place
OF residence.
TEE recent strike on the Brooklyn Ee-
waited road has come to an end, and trains
are running on old schedule time. or the
seventy men who quit work ~ an hours
notice, sixty-ei.,ht, Colonel Martin says,
have fled applications for reinstatement
ACTINa SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
MAYNAbp received telegram on the Goth
from Captain sheppard, commanding the
revenue steamer Rush, dated at Ounn-
laska, Juy ). confirming the press dis
patches Ia regard to the seizure Of the
Brit sh steam schooner Annie Brown and
the American schooner Chal enge for H.
legal sealing.
TIE Secretary Of the Navy has sent out
circular letters to the steel manufac,ur
ers Of the United States, notifying them
| that the department has decided to post
pone until September 20 the opening of
proposals for the furnishing OF steel east
| guns for the navy. This action is taken
| in order 70 give more time to domestic
man ufacturers to consider the matter.
THE Chicago Doodle case iory was com.
pie ed on the 2lst and the trial begun.
| Tue 81. Louis rrocers had their hearing
before the Inter- State Commerce Com
mission at Washington on the 2ist.
THE yacht Thistle is to sail from Glss-
| gov for New York on the 25 h. She car
rics forty men. Her owner and captain
are sanguine that she will win the Amer
ica's cup.
On the 22d drunken man fell of the
bluh at Kansas City, sixty-five feet and
the report says 1t "sobered him up"
| TIE French Chamber Of Deputies, on
the 2lst, vote 5ol,0)) francs for the tenn
porary resumption Of performances by
the Opera Comique Company whose
theater was recently destroyed by fire.
| 1T is estimated that the coke strike jus,
closed cost the msu and operators 8,
00O.0o1
GAMBniSus Assembly. Knights OF
Labor, 1000 strong, OF Milwaukee, has
withdrawn from the oTdsr because Of
Grand Master Workman Powdc .ly's senii.
ments on the temperance question. II Is
probable that the Assem- bly, composed OF
| tight barrel coopers will also withdraw
for the same reason. Gam brinus Assem-.
bly, are all brewers.
! TIE rife contest Tor the Elcho challen &c
shield took place at Win pledon, England.
on the 2lst. The English team won by o
score of 1870 poiats. The Scotch team
made 1850, and ths Irish team 1,S66
In convention at London. Out, on the
-, the Canadian Klishts Of Labor psss-
- roeolntioa 70 separate fro0 ~ or.
~ = ~ Uaite1 utalsa
q - ~ curtAor oeeNueuoD voss
l1l1 ~ - lalef-o nan Clru0Grco Co.
~ 4.
The Osceola times., 1887-07-30
GRIMES AND CAsUALTIEs.

Or the 2Oth two more of the great Brit
ish iron-clads were IN collision. The
Agincourt was run into at Portsmouth
BY the Black Prince and damaged. The
Agincourt In an Iron screw ship. armor-
plated, OF 10,690 tons and 8 7s0 horse
power, and the Black Prince Is an iron
srnaor plated ship of $50 toas and 6,71o
hogDo povser
~ - ~ onsriR 4ea:ii. q chsares,
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Supporters of Dignity.

President Cleveland has laid 80 much
stress on the importance of supporting the
dignity of the President that he invites
criticism OF his own ac.s, so far as con-
Germs the character of the men whom he
has chosen as his supporters.
OF course a President, as even Mr..
Cleveland admits. will make mistakes,
but what wotul ones he has made in his
appointments for fitness and efficiency"
and not TOR partisan service"
Harvey, the defaulter; Beecher. who
obtained and retained large sum OF
money by fraudulent pretexts, are two OF
the most recent instances. But take some
Of the earlier ones. What catalogue it
is Higgins, ballot-box suffer and gam
bier: Shannon Of Meridian. Miss. indict-
ed for criminal conspiracy the Sioux City.
Iowa. postmaster, convicted of violating
the pension laws; Holmes. Mississippi
postmaster, an election law breaker; a
Rhode lsiand postmaster arrested nine
liquor law Maine man appointed post
master while he was still in Jail tor de-
frauding The government; a Kentucky
postal official arrested three times for
obtaining money under false pretences
a twoterm convict appointed custodian
Of the Cincinnati public buildings;
Thomas of Baltimore. involved in cleo
ton frauds. made Indian inspector; con-
yicted thief nude j,nitor Of the Cincin-
nat, Money Order Department OF the
postoilice man who was IN jail three
months for stealing a note made clerk
in the Bureau OF Statistics Jacobs of
Louisville, Jones OF Louisiana. men in all
parts Of The country, who are VIGOROUSLY
unfit for office receive places OF profit
under Mr.. Cleveland.
Here are nearly score of men enumer-
ated and the list can be trebled-men who
have been appointed or approved by Mr..
Cleveland as supporters o: his dignity.
Talk OF the need of the cry turn the
rascals OUT" There is quite as great need
to cry keep the rascals out" and this
Mr. Cleveland does not seem able to do.
II is all very well for the President TO
lecture the people on their duty to support
his dignity; he should first consult the
needs of his own personal case and use
his own influence with himself before call
ing on others to do that which he con-
spicuously neglects. Philadelphia News.
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General News.

Crops throughout the Dominion are in q
very promising condition.
A company of Frenchmen are breeding
Arabian horses in Dakota.
II 50 ,o0o. 900 persons should clasp hands
they could reach round the globe.
The China tea trade 10 suffering from COM
petition in India and Ceylon.
The las; census of Berlin places the nun.
Der of Americans residing there at 9T9.
There are 5 200 boys and 1890 girls in the
Wesleyan schools in Mysore, India.
The Japanese Government has decided to
build three ne~ war vessels at cost of 81,
900, 900 each.
There are more than IS 200 widows in the
State of Massachusetts, of whom about half
are less than 40 years of age.
The average age of European girls when
they marry according to German ststis,iciau,
is 70 years, while that of men is 2s years.
Paper doors are coming into use. and it il
claimed that they viii neither shrink. swell,
crack or warp.
An old Law is still in extans in Virginia
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State News.
SAGADAHOC.

Eben ID. Jordan, of the firm of Jordan,
Marsh & Co, of Boston, who is visiting in
Topsham, Tuesday, went to Mere Poin. fish,
ing He owns farm in South Auburn.
This season he will cut 70 tons of hay. He
has twenty head of cattle on the farm.
Miss A. + Smith of Topsham arrived in
Queenstown last week; she will visit Liver
pool, London, and then TO Germany to study
German. will also pursue studies in French.
She will be away year.
There has been an advance in grain freights
in San Francisco of from three to five shil-
Ings This is gratifying intelligence to
Bah ship owners-A Bath merchant claims
that there isn't place in the country where
the credit system is used so extensively as in
Bath.-Bath is to have big celebration in
September upon the completion of the water
works. About all the firemen in the State
are to be invited there.-Mr. Ansel Jones,
mate of the Wiwurna, broke one leg just
above the ankle, and received other injuries,
Wednesday evening. The boat was making
her landing about o'clock, and he stepped
up on the rail and got caught 10 the bite of
the rope, which wound around and up his leg,
grinding into HIM terribly. 1t took two hours
and half to dress his wounds.
So great is the demand for kennebec river
ice at Washington, several ice laden sehooners
are to be towed to that place direct. The
schooner WIN. NJ Bird with a large cargo
was this afternoon at Drummond's wharf,
where number of tons of coal was placed
on the deck to be used by the tug Clara
Clsrita which is to tow the big schooner to
Washington. The tug Sequin with a large
schooner ice laden. in tow, went to sea last
night bound for Washington. Another
schooner is to follow in few days in tow of
a tug
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"The Blood IL the Life.

Thoroughly cleanse the blood, which is the
fountain of health, try DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, and good digestion, a
fair skin, buoyant spirits. vital strength, and
soundness of constitution will be established.
Golden Medical Discovery cures all humors
from the common pimple. blotch, or eruption,
to the worst scrofulsr or blood poison Es
pecislly has it proven its efficacy in Salt rheum
or letter, Fever sores, Hip joint Disease,
Scrofuous Sores and Swellings, Enlarged
Glands, and Eating Ulcers.
Golden Medical Discovery cures Consump.
ton (Which is Scrofula of the Lungs), by its
wonderful blood purifying, invigorating and
nntrtive properties. For Weak Lungs,
Splitting of Blood, Shortness of Breath Bron-
chitis, Severe Coughs, Asthma. and kindred
affections, it is sovereign remedy 1t
promptly cures the severest Coughs.
For Torpid Liver. Biliousness. or "Liver
Complaint" Dyspepsia, and Indigestion, it is
Al unequaled remedy. Sold by Druggists